I'm just observing some behavior and since I haven't built any chm stuff myself so far, I'm posting it here (figuring we don't have any chm topic yet, this is the closest).

Trying some links embedded in VFP help, I see they open in the right pane of the help window. OK, chm engine is built around IE browser control, it works inside, cool. Now I open a chm file built for another app (written in VFP, but that doesn't concern the help file), and there's a link. I click on it and it opens a new browser window. I don't know if there are any special switches (probably it's just the same old html stuff), but -

it doesn't open the default browser. It opens IE.

No matter that even sparrows on the tree know I don't use IE, it's about the case when I have a customer who's like me, having something else for a browser, runing on "suboptimal" machine (quoted from Windows manuals from the time of W95), having the VFP app, its help and the default browser already open (so half the RAM is already busy), and then clicks a link to the distributor of the app and has to wait extra time for the non-default browser to come up (probably swapping half the stuff to disk).

I'm actually wondering whether these links-from-the-help work on the machines where IE is uninstalled or not installed (I may expect those to appear in due time, depending on court decision), and I wonder what would happen then. Would IE appear just the same, or would something break?

(No I'm not uninstalling IE - I need it for testing web stuff and for few stubborn sites I need, like my bank)